Re: P390

2006-11-15 Thread Timothy Sipples
I posted an item at The Mainframe Blog (http://mainframe.typepad.com) today with a discussion of what's currently involved in obtaining a home mainframe (which might be personal or might be shared among a group of developers). The post might spur some interesting comments, and anyone is welcome to

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:59:53 -0500 Dave Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I’ve been digging for a couple of days now trying to find out how I can :dynamically retrieve the allocated space of a known dataset. Can anyone :give me even a whiff of where to look? DSCB. -- Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL

Re: P390

2006-11-15 Thread Denis Gäbler
Hi, It would more interesting to have a z/OS (not z/OS.e) calculation with IMS and DB2, because thats what would be required by most developers I know. Are we still talking about 30.000 USD? And what monthly charges at the lowest level? Denis Gaebler. -Original Message-

Re: P390

2006-11-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
That all becomes very interesting when you put numbers to it. You know $30,000 is about what you pay for a Flex/ES machine with the emulation software. I can see one distinct advantage to Flex, which is hardware peripheral emulation, like fake-tape and DASD. It seems that you get killed on

FTP with encoding=mbcs and preserve SI/SO at PC

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, I have a FTP job to put DBCS data (Simplified Chinese) from Host (z/Os 1.4) to Windows platform: locsite encoding=mbcs locsite mbdataconn=(ibm-1388,ibm-5488) put 'mvs.file' file.txt However, I want to keep the SI / SO pair and have them to be converted to ASCII

Language tagging?

2006-11-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
This is an international mailing list which, while primarily English, has messages that are legitimately written in other languages. Unfortunately, some of us can't read all of the languages used here. Is there an e-mail header field that is intended for identifying the language[1]? If so, could

Re: IKJCT43A Return Code 99 - What does this mean.

2006-11-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/14/2006 at 10:54 AM, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Exactly - other programs deal with concatenation of unlike datasets; why can't the TMP? Because it would make the code more fragile. OTOH, were IBM to provide a new I/O mode along the lines of MTS, ... --

Re: 1401 and Music

2006-11-15 Thread Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/14/2006 at 10:37 AM, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And there was the other MUSIC - OS/360's precursor to SMF. Wasn't MUSIC McGill's predecessor to TSO? I thought that the predecessor to SMF was IEFWAD. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Displaying ISPF Panels from a COBOL program

2006-11-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/13/2006 at 03:38 PM, Warren Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But the issue now is that I get a 998 return code stating that on TBOPEN of ISPSPROF, the table is in use. If you have to remain logged on, create a separate profile for the batch job. While you're at it,

URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Mike Wojtukiewicz
I've searched the archives yet I've not been able to find this. WHERE is the IBMLINK URL where I logon and look at PTFs APARs etc? I go in troubleshooting, click on z series, then ZOS, then IBMLINK then I get back to that insidious ibm.com/us screen where I get the same menu choices. A real

Re: URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Cynthia Davis
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/ibmlink/servicelink/servicelinkPage.jsp?lc=encc=US - Original Message From: Mike Wojtukiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:02:52 AM Subject: URL for IBMLINK I've searched the archives yet I've not

Re: DFHSM PROBLEM - RECALL

2006-11-15 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Did you check the syslog for the time in question for any security type messages? When you did a hsend q w - were there 2 recall tasks waiting to execute or was the recall count = ? -Original Message- From: John Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:13

Re: URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 07:02 -0600, Mike Wojtukiewicz wrote: I've searched the archives yet I've not been able to find this. WHERE is the IBMLINK URL where I logon and look at PTFs APARs etc? I go in troubleshooting, click on z series, then ZOS, then IBMLINK then I get back to that insidious

Re: URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Andy White
FYI I used www.ibm.com/ibmlink I then was able to get in this morning Andy Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addressee only. Any unauthorized use, dissemination of the information, or copying of

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Relson
The easiest method to compress a library ... I hope no one is contemplating compressing a SYS1.LINKLIB that is currently in use on an active system Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-15 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Tony Harminc said: Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:25:40 -0500 On Thu 9 November, 2006 Paul Gilmartin wrote: Ugh. How do you package a LMOD in a PTF? Inline with GIMDTS? (Doesn't work.) Better with FROMNETWORK, which is relfile-friendly, even

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Matt Simpson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick O'Keefe) wrote: I see 2 problems with this. 1. The inflated issue gets given to the support team as a sev1 and may take them away from sev2 problems (which may be mine!). And it may get you known as an inflater. They aren't

Re: DFHSM PROBLEM - RECALL

2006-11-15 Thread Staller, Allan
Hsend release recall? snip I issued a hrecall for two migrated datasets (ML1) (ML2) and nothing is happening. I did the necessary health checks - hsend q req, hsend q act, hsend q setsys - and noticed nothing. I checked the started task and no error messages were displayed. I even ran a

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-15 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 08:28 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: The easiest method to compress a library ... I hope no one is contemplating compressing a SYS1.LINKLIB that is currently in use on an active system Can't be much fun being a trainee sysprog any more - wasn't this one of the rites of

Re: ftp failing

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:52:09 -0500, Anthony Bongiorno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ftp to my new zos 16 system i get: BPXP018I THREAD 0D416C61, IN PROCESS 83951665, ENDED 603 WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 940C1000, AND REASON CODE 0001. I am trying to look the code,

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Simpson Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Inflating Severity snip In one recent memorable case, the local rep actually called the support

SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread George Dranes
We've always allocated our SMF files as follows: DEFINE CLUSTER( - CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(26624) - TRACKS(6300) - NAME(SYS1.MAN2) - NONINDEXED - RECORDSIZE(26614,32767) - REUSE - SHAREOPTIONS(2) - SPANNED - SPEED - VOLUME(SYS004) ) I'm just curious since I

Re: 1401 and Music

2006-11-15 Thread Jousma, David
Yes, that is the MUSIC I know. It's what we used in college, for get this, interactive coding of programs, submitting batch jobs, etc. It was still pretty new to the college, and the college still made all new computer students take card punch class, just so we'd know what it was like in case

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, John Eells said: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:35:43 -0500 From the SMP/E Reference: The ++PROGRAM MCS describes a program element (a pre-built load module or a program object). I had forgotten about that; thanks. (I tend to forget things I don't regularly use.)

Re: 1401 and Music

2006-11-15 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
It's still available from McGill. Some of the Hercules folks play with it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] 1401 and

Shane's antipodes

2006-11-15 Thread john gilmore
Shane writes: Whoa, better stop - ain't Friday yet, even here in the Antipodes. I know that, among other things, 'antipodes' is Britspeak for 'Australia and New Zealand', and thus legitimately plural; but I prefer the definition that makes antipodes come only in opposed pairs (of points

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Mills
There is no one great method. I've got a routine that does this although my comments at the front say: * Several SERIOUS shortcomings to this routine: *1. No multi-volume support. *2. Large file (z/OS 1.7) and extended file support untested. *3. What to do about members, VSAM, etc.

Health Checker and RACF

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Pace
I'm confused about RACF and Health Checker. I've started Health Checker and want to view it in SDSF CK. But ICH408I USER(IBMUSER ) GROUP(AOPADMIN) NAME() HZS.ZOS1.IBMCNZ.CNZ_AMRF_EVENTUAL_ACTION_MSGS.MESSAGES CL(XFACILIT) PROFILE NOT FOUND - REQUIRED FOR AUTHORITY

Re: Health Checker and RACF

2006-11-15 Thread Alvaro Quintupray
I suspect that must be .. HZS.*.*.*.MESSAGES Or HZS.**.MESSAGES Saludos. Alvaro. -Mensaje original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Mark Pace Enviado el: Miércoles, 15 de Noviembre de 2006 11:08 Para: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Asunto: Health

Re: Health Checker and RACF

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Pace
HZS.*.*.*.MESSAGES DOH! Pesky extra dots. Thank you. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 888.221.9862 http://www.mainline.com This e-mail and files transmitted with it are confidential, and

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread John Kington
You can tell the secondary allocation amount from the DSCB but the primary is not kept in the DSCB for nonvsam datasets. Only the size of the first extent is kept. If you have the SMF type 15 record, a portion of the JFCB is imbedded in the record. Somewhere around offset 220 is the primary amount

Re: 1401 and Music

2006-11-15 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/15/2006 8:48:52 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: computer students take card punch class, just so we'd know what it was like in case they were still in use in business when we graduated.. This was in the early 80's. What I remember it was

Re: Health Checker and RACF

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
There's 4 dots in the resource name HZS.ZOS1.IBMCNZ.CNZ_AMRF_EVENTUAL_ACTION_MSGS.MESSAGES and only 3 dots in the RACF profile name HZS.*.*.MESSAGES Mayhap the RACF profile should look like HZS.*.*.*.MESSAGES or HZS.**.MESSAGES or somesuch?

Re: Health Checker and RACF

2006-11-15 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/15/2006 9:33:52 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mayhap the RACF profile should look like HZS.*.*.*.MESSAGES or HZS.**.MESSAGES or somesuch? What is it? You can ask for DSNs covered in viewing a GENERIC, probably doesn't do much good here

Re: DFHSM PROBLEM - RECALL

2006-11-15 Thread Friske, Michael
Did HSM abend or get cancelled while using the SDSP the ML1 data set is in and/or the tape the ML2 data set is on? If so, the in-use bit may be on for these resources. To check the system identifier for the tape TTOC record -- FIXCDS T L2-123456- DISPLAY(X'00') LENGTH(4) To turn off the

Re: FAQ

2006-11-15 Thread Tim Hare
I thought the FAQ for us old mainframers was called RTFM? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Below is the documented define from the SMF manual. Your Cisize of 26K seems to be optimum for a 3390, see section 2.1.1.2 Using DEFINE to Create SMF Data Sets of z/OS V1R4.0 MVS System Management Facilities (SMF). I'm a bit curious as to why you would change the recommended Recordsize? How many

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Dave Quinn
Thanks so far ... I want to run in a batch Assembler program. Possibly provide a DSN as input and return information as close to as possible that is returned from ISPF's Dataset Information screen. I had been looking at DSCB and came to the same conclusion about the primary space. I can total

Suppressing Step Status Messages

2006-11-15 Thread Earnie Allen
Looking for a way to suppress Step Status messages from my master consoles. Any suggestions? Earnie Allen Senior Systems Programmer MVS Systems Software WORLDSPAN, LP Phone: 404-322-2799 FAX: 404-322-4653 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 11/15/2006 at 08:38 EST, Matt Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (And I was told that the alleged policy about not being able to talk to a duty manager unless the problem was Sev 1 was BS and I should never have been told that). Definitely BS. You can talk to the on-call duty

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:25:46 -0600, George Dranes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've always allocated our SMF files as follows: DEFINE CLUSTER( - CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(26624) - TRACKS(6300) - NAME(SYS1.MAN2) - NONINDEXED - RECORDSIZE(26614,32767) - REUSE - SHAREOPTIONS(2)

Re: URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 11/15/2006 at 05:14 PST, Cynthia Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/ibmlink/servicelink/servicelinkPage.jsp?lc=en; cc=US As I'm sure you all know by now, bookmarking the www- kind of URLs is a crap-shoot with the IBM website. :-( But you can

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Mills
You're right: ISPF has it, and you should be able to get it the same way, but you can't. Why not? For the answer, search the archives for FAMS. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Quinn Sent: Wednesday, November 15,

Re: Dataset created without corresponding RACF profile

2006-11-15 Thread Debbie Mitchell
Thanks to all. The problem was, indeed, a GLOBAL DATASET entry for 'RACUID.**'/ALTER By way of explanation as to why our backups fail on this condition: We are using FDR for our nightly backups. We have the system option ALLCALL set to yes but do not have the DASDVOL class active in RACF.

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip- The inflated issue gets given to the support team as a sev1 and may take them away from sev2 problems (which may be mine!). And it may get you known as an inflater. They aren't appreciated. I try to stay on good terms with the service teams I

Re: Suppressing Step Status Messages

2006-11-15 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 11:04 -0500, Earnie Allen wrote: Looking for a way to suppress Step Status messages from my master consoles. They are likely being issued by your installation's IEFACTRT. Check its source to see what ROUTCDE is specified in the WTO, and then vary your console to exclude

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip Can't be much fun being a trainee sysprog any more - wasn't this one of the rites of passage ???. I guess deleting the MCAT (and getting it back before anyone notices) is also passe ... Not to mention ... Whoa, better stop - ain't Friday yet, even

Re: URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Wojtukiewicz I've searched the archives yet I've not been able to find this. WHERE is the IBMLINK URL where I logon and look at PTFs APARs etc? I go in troubleshooting, click on z series, then ZOS, then

Re: Health Checker and RACF

2006-11-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/15/2006 10:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused about RACF and Health Checker. I've started Health Checker and want to view it in SDSF CK. But ICH408I USER(IBMUSER ) GROUP(AOPADMIN) NAME() HZS.ZOS1.IBMCNZ.CNZ_AMRF_EVENTUAL_ACTION_MSGS.MESSAGES

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread john gilmore
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:25:46 -0600, George Dranes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've always allocated our SMF files as follows: DEFINE CLUSTER( - CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(26624) - TRACKS(6300) - NAME(SYS1.MAN2) - NONINDEXED - RECORDSIZE(26614,32767) - REUSE - SHAREOPTIONS(2) -

Re: Suppressing Step Status Messages

2006-11-15 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip Looking for a way to suppress Step Status messages from my master consoles. Any suggestions? unsnip- Dig out your System Commands manual and check out the MONITOR command. Then perhaps check the automatic commands you

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/15/2006 9:59 AM, john gilmore wrote: Shane writes: Whoa, better stop - ain't Friday yet, even here in the Antipodes. I know that, among other things, 'antipodes' is Britspeak for 'Australia and New Zealand', and thus legitimately plural; but I prefer the definition that makes

Re: Suppressing Step Status Messages

2006-11-15 Thread Earnie Allen
Checking my IEFACTRT specifications . might be lurking in there as a usermod. Earnie Allen Senior Systems Programmer MVS Systems Software WORLDSPAN, LP Phone: 404-322-2799 FAX: 404-322-4653 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember: It takes teamwork to make the dream work.

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread John Laubenheimer
There's been some disagreement over the specification of CISIZE for the SMF datasets. A CISIZE of 26624 gives you 52K per track on a 3390 (2 CIs) ... slightly better performance. A CISIZE of 18432 will give you 54K per track on a 3390 (3 CIs) ... sightly better space utilization. Make your

Re: Merge SMF records

2006-11-15 Thread Antonio Corrales
First, thanks all the people that try to help me My problem is not with the SORT function. Really is with the MERGE function. I will try to explain it I have two SMF files, F1 and F2 a) If i merge F1 and F2 with IFASMFDP, it works correctly b) If i sort F1 with SPANINC=RC16 default,

Re: DFHSM PROBLEM - RECALL

2006-11-15 Thread Jack Kelly
with the ab/sd37, i would assume that recall, and probably more, are in hsm hold. have you tried releasing recall, migrate, etc OR querying (tought reading but ) ? Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 John Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:58 +, john gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip recommendation and your own CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(26624) value, I would change RECORDSIZE(26614,32767) which may be an old typo, to RECORDSIZE(26624,32767) Not a typo today, but I'm not enough of a VSAM

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread John Kington
Dave, I want to run in a batch Assembler program. Possibly provide a DSN as input and return information as close to as possible that is returned from ISPF's Dataset Information screen. I think Charles (Mills) offered some sample code that may help you (already deleted the article). I had been

Re: URL for IBMLINK

2006-11-15 Thread Hylton Tom P
To add to the spinning wheel of choices, I've always used http://www-3.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2/portal/portalPage.jsp?refreshIndex= -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Wojtukiewicz Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 8:03 AM

Re: FAQ

2006-11-15 Thread R.S.
Tim Hare wrote: I thought the FAQ for us old mainframers was called RTFM? No, it's NOT. Definitely. In many cases RTFM does not solve someone's problem. There are many (more or less popular) issues, which aren't described or are poorly described or the description is spread among many

Re: P390

2006-11-15 Thread Dave Jones
Timothy, why worry about the cost of z/OS.e? If you have a z800 and are using it to develop z/OS software, why not just join the IBM PWD program and get a license for z/OS, plus all of the development tools you need for no charge? While the PWD program is geared towards developers that have the

Re: FAQ

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Hammond
How about something like a WIKIPEDIA format - that way everyone can help keep it updated. Mark Hammond -Original Message- I thought the FAQ for us old mainframers was called RTFM? The only problem I see is someone have to maintain it. Any volunteers ?

Re: IBMLINK Failures -- Attention of IBM Management

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Black
2. If you eport a sev1 problem you have to treat it as sev1 (until it gets lowered). That includes working on the problem in the middle of the night if that's when IBM comes up with something. Agreed. Sev1 gets IBMers out of bed if needed. I had a Sev1 once that got passed from US support

Re: Merge SMF records

2006-11-15 Thread R.S.
Antonio Corrales wrote: A last doubt for Radoslaw: When you says “Eliminate SMF record flood”. What do you mean? Really we want to merge F1 and F2 to have one SMF montly file to have some reports sorted in a especial sequence Antonio, It is general remark, not related to your problem.

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Black
I refuse to admit that this is not kept handy somewhere. ISPF's Dataset Information has it, why can't I. ISPF does not display the primary allocation, it displays the first extent size General Data Current Allocation Management class . . : **None**

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Bruce Black
Now, getting the Dungeon Ma...oops! Duty Manager out of bed at 3am is entertaining, but not suggested unless you have a Sev1 that's missing its criteria! Alan, as an IBMer you would probably know this better than I, but doesn't duty manager imply that they are on-duty, not just on-call and

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread R.S.
Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:58 +, john gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip recommendation and your own CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(26624) value, I would change RECORDSIZE(26614,32767) which may be an old typo, to RECORDSIZE(26624,32767) Not a typo today, but

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread George Dranes
So what I take from this discussion is that what I currently have is the recommended settings? I should add BUFFERSPACE(106496) to my define. Can I change the bufferspace value to each MAN file individually or is this one of those changes that require all MAN files be redefined?

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread John Eells
Bruce Black wrote: Now, getting the Dungeon Ma...oops! Duty Manager out of bed at 3am is entertaining, but not suggested unless you have a Sev1 that's missing its criteria! Alan, as an IBMer you would probably know this better than I, but doesn't duty manager imply that they are on-duty,

Re: Merge SMF records

2006-11-15 Thread Frank Yaeger
Antonio Corrales wrote on 11/15/2006 08:40:57 AM: My problem is not with the SORT function. Really is with the MERGE function. I will try to explain it I have two SMF files, F1 and F2 a) If i merge F1 and F2 with IFASMFDP, it works correctly b) If i sort F1 with SPANINC=RC16 default,

Re: 1401 and Music

2006-11-15 Thread Gregory, Gary G
Yes, MUSIC was McGill University System (for) Interactive Computing. BTW, I believe that MUSIC is now public domain. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:20 PM To:

Re: Suppressing Step Status Messages

2006-11-15 Thread Lizette Koehler
Looking for a way to suppress Step Status messages from my master consoles. Any suggestions? A couple of other options, If you have an automation tool - Netview, Tivoli, OPS/MVS, etc you can probably have that capture and not send the message to the console, or talk sweet to your mvs

ish Change the Mode Errno=86x The function is not implemented; Reason=052E0102

2006-11-15 Thread Anthony Bongiorno
I start ISH I hit enter to get the / root file system. I put a '?' next to /u and select 3 ( Display File Attributes) /u attributes are displayed. I use the edit pull down and select Mode fields and change 555 to 755 and i get the following: Errno=86x The function is not implemented;

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 11/15/2006 at 12:55 EST, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, getting the Dungeon Ma...oops! Duty Manager out of bed at 3am is entertaining, but not suggested unless you have a Sev1 that's missing its criteria! Alan, as an IBMer you would probably know this better

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Can I change the bufferspace value to each MAN file individually or is this one of those changes that require all MAN files be redefined? You may try to run IDCAMS: ALTER SYS1.MAN1.D BUFSP(110592) ALTER SYS1.MAN3.D BUFSP(110592) ALTER SYS1.MAN4.D BUFSP(110592) ALTER SYS1.MAN5.D

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Jon Brock
Not necessarily. I can't remember ever receiving any sort of abend or software error when the hardware was completely down. Jon snip If it weren't for the h/w, there wouldn't be s/w errors, now would there? H? /snip --

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Spencer
Have a look at the Catalog Search Interface (CSI) in the DFSMSdfp manuals. Eric Spencer Neon Enterprise Software Inc. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:53 AM To:

Re: IBMLINK Failures -- Attention of IBM Management

2006-11-15 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:41 -0500, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. To be honest, raising the sev of existing problems just to complain about IBMLINK sounds sophomoric and petty to me Something petty and sophmoric voiced here? Now, *there's* a first. :-) Pat O'Keefe

Re: FAQ

2006-11-15 Thread Ken Porowski
The subject of a FAQ from/for IBM-MAIN or common questions has been posed many times. Outside of the 'technical' issues of hosting/maintaining it I believe the bigger issue would be achieving a consensus on the content of an individual subject. If it could be put together it would probably make a

Re: FAQ

2006-11-15 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/15/2006 3:10:47 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Outside of the 'technical' issues of hosting/maintaining it I believe the bigger issue would be achieving a consensus on the content of an individual subject. If it could be put together it would

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-15 Thread Shane
Walt, pulling John into line, wrote: I know that, among other things, 'antipodes' is Britspeak for 'Australia and New Zealand', and thus legitimately plural; but I prefer the definition that makes antipodes come only in opposed pairs (of points on the surface of the earth connected

IBMLINK again

2006-11-15 Thread Robert Justice
Now I'm trying to open an etr and getting this message: from web page: The component ID you entered is not valid. Enter a valid component ID or, if you cannot identify it, do one of these: (a) leave the component ID blank and press Enter to see routing assistance prompts; (b) type 'unknown'

Re: Suppressing Step Status Messages

2006-11-15 Thread Ed Gould
Or try the Operator command: : PM STATUSon the console. On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Looking for a way to suppress Step Status messages from my master consoles. Any suggestions? A couple of other options, If you have an automation tool - Netview,

Re: 1401 Music

2006-11-15 Thread Steele, Phil
err... Umm... I can hardly bring myself to say it... Wouldn't you need a Drum printer to make up this err... Band ? (along with clanking chains and tooting trains, ) Phil Steele (who couldn't hel;p himself) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: 1401 Music

2006-11-15 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Along with a steele guitar. (sorry) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steele, Phil Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 1401 Music err... Umm... I can hardly bring myself to say

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Stitt
You haven't even lived until you forget to update the IPL bootstrap records on the only sysres you've got that is supposed to work. Got the scars to prove it. g On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:30:54 -0600, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip Can't be

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Mills
Specifically, it's in DFSMS Managing Catalogs. Does the OP want to know the space requested for the dataset, or the space used by a dataset? E.g., do you want to be able to determine that the dataset was allocated SPACE=(TRK,(5,2)) or that the dataset now occupies 9 tracks? CSI will return the

QUESTION ON DFDSS - DELCATE PARM

2006-11-15 Thread willie bunter
Hi, I am trying to diagnose a problem with missing alias. I think I may have tracked down the culprit. One of our users is doing a full volume LOGICAL restore using the following parms: PARALLELRESTORE DATASET(INCL(**)) -TGTGDS(ACTIVE) - INDD(TAPEV07)

Re: Unix Security

2006-11-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/13/2006 at 09:55 AM, Klavon John R [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone have a good suggestion for setting up (Superuser id or UID(0) for individuals that require the access. Yes - check whether they really need it. The last time I had RACF SPECIAL I wouldn't even

Use of EMC Virtual Tape solution.

2006-11-15 Thread John Benik
If anybody is using EMC's virtual tape solution I would be interested in hearing pros and cons of it. We are thinking of looking at it, but have just implemented an STK solution. We are somewhat concerned that we may run out of capacity in our current environment, which is why we are

Re: P390

2006-11-15 Thread Timothy Sipples
Lindy writes: As an IBM development partner could you get an even bigger break on the software costs? Why not the entire range of z/OS software like with the ADCD collection? If IBM would give you this to do development for little or no cost then there would be little need for an emulation

Re: Inflating Severity

2006-11-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
Now, getting the Dungeon Ma...oops! Duty Manager out of bed at 3am is entertaining, but not suggested unless you have a Sev1 that's missing its criteria! Spoken like a typical US-centric American! As John Eells rightly pointed out, there are different procedures in different countries. There